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The Linguistics of Humor: An Introduction by Salvatore Attardo 9780198791287
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £34.03This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor. Salvatore Attardo takes a broad approach to the topic, exploring not only theoretical linguistic analyses, but also pragmatic and semantic aspects, conversation... -
Discourse and Power by Teun A. van Dijk 9780230574090
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.40Teun van Dijk is one of the founders of Critical Discourse Studies and this collection brings together some of his most important writing, framed by new introductory material. He examines the role of discourse in the reproduction of power and domination... -
The Language of Gaming by Astrid Ensslin 9780230238596
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.20This innovative text examines videogames and gaming from the point of view of discourse analysis. In particular, it studies two major aspects of videogame-related communication: the ways in which videogames and their makers convey meanings to their... -
The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Expressions by Chloe O. Davis 9781529110401
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.99A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language-an intersectional, inclusive illustrated glossary featuring more than 800 terms created by and for queer culture.With a foreword from Paula Akpan Do you know... -
The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics by Yan Huang
RRP: £43.49Booksplease Price: £37.99This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics. Following an introduction by the editor, the volume is divided... -
Introducing Linguistics: A Graphic Guide by R. L. Trask 9781848310889
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.47Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, "Introducing Linguistics" reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill.About the AuthorR.L. Trask was a professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex. A hugely... -
The Ministry of Quizzes: The Ultimate Compendium for Puzzlers and Quiz-solvers by David Gentle
Booksplease Price: £8.38The Ministry of Quizzes is the must-buy gift book for quiz solvers and puzzlers, from David Gentle, author of On the Tip of My Tongue. Perfect for fans of the GCHQ Puzzle Book, Bletchley Park Brainteasers, and The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book.Deep in the... -
Illustrated Russian Grammar by Goutta Snetkov 9781526200341
Booksplease Price: £16.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526200341Author Goutta SnetkovFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint RLTbooksPublisher RLTbooks -
The Ministry of Quizzes: The Ultimate Compendium for Puzzlers and Quiz-Solvers David Gentle 9781529087116
Booksplease Price: £10.07'I find it impossible to believe you will not love this book' - Daniel RadcliffeThe Ministry of Quizzes is the must-buy gift book for quiz solvers and puzzlers, from David Gentle, author of On the Tip of My Tongue. Perfect for fans of the GCHQ Puzzle... -
A Beginner's Guide to Discourse Analysis by Sean Sutherland
Booksplease Price: £34.09This practical textbook introduces students to a range of tools and techniques used in discourse analysis. The perfect starting point for those new to the field, it explores a wide range of fundamental concepts in discourse analysis, including... -
Analysing Talk: Investigating Verbal Interaction in English by David Langford 9780333428597
Booksplease Price: £40.06The book offers a step-by-step approach to the task of describing what is systematic in conversational behaviour. The book is organised as a series of practical exercises, teaching skills such as transcribing verbal interaction and identifying and... -
Analysing Political Speeches: Rhetoric, Discourse and Metaphor by Jonathan Charteris-Black 9781352003963
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.41Exploring speeches by public figures such as Emma Watson, Tony Blair, Donald Trump, Julia Gillard and Lady Gaga, this engaging textbook explains the ways in which political speeches can be analysed. It examines the role of language in speeches and how it... -
Second Language Pragmatics by Naoko Taguchi
RRP: £59.40Booksplease Price: £44.88Taguchi and Roever present the latest developments in second language pragmatics research, combining acquisitional and sociolinguistic perspectives. They cover theories of pragmatics learning and research methods in investigating pragmatics, linking... -
How We Talk by N. J. Enfield
Booksplease Price: £33.60We all had teachers who scolded us over the use of um, uh-huh, oh, like, and mm-hmm. But as linguist N. J. Enfield reveals in How We Talk, these "bad words" are fundamental to language. Whether we are speaking with the clerk at the store, our boss, or... -
Pragmatics: The Basics Billy Clark 9781138193864
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.34Pragmatics: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the study of verbal and nonverbal communication in context. Including nine chapters on the history of pragmatics, current theories, the application of pragmatics, and possible future... -
Offensive Language: Taboo, Offence and Social Control by Dr Jim O'Driscoll 9781350193321
Booksplease Price: £30.69Why do people take offence at things that are said? What is it exactly about an offending utterance which causes this negative reaction? How well motivated is the response to the offence?Offensive Language addresses these questions by applying an array... -
Introducing Semiotics: A Graphic Guide by Paul Cobley
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15"Introducing Semiotics" outlines the development of sign study from its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. Through Paul Cobley's incisive text and Litza Jansz's brilliant illustrations, it identifies the key semioticians and their... -
Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics by Alan Cruse
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.44This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which meaning is conveyed in language, covering not only semantic matters but also topics normally considered to fall under pragmatics. Above all, the book displays and explains the richness... -
What is Rhetoric? by Michel Meyer 9780199691821
Booksplease Price: £48.50This book offers a new approach to the principles and functioning of rhetoric. In everyday life, we often debate issues or simply discuss questions. Rhetoric is the way in which we answer questions in an interpersonal context, when we want to have an... -
Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism: New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics by Gerhard Preyer 9780199213313
Booksplease Price: £43.42Fifteen specially written papers examine the ways in which the content of what we say is dependent on the context in which we say it. At the centre of the current debate on this subject is Cappelen and Lepore's claim that context-sensitivity in language... -
Concealed Questions by Ilaria Frana 9780199670932
Booksplease Price: £43.02This book presents a novel analysis of concealed-question constructions, reports of a mental attitude in which part of a sentence looks like a nominal complement (e.g. Eve's phone number in Adam knows Eve's phone number), but is interpreted as an... -
The Semantics of Evidentials by Sarah E. Murray 9780199681570
Booksplease Price: £115.25This book provides a compositional, truth-conditional, crosslinguistic semantics for evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. Central to the proposed theory is the distinction between what... -
The Semantics of Evidentials by Sarah E. Murray 9780199681587
Booksplease Price: £45.12This book provides argues for a compositional, truth-conditional, crosslinguistic semantics for evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. Central to the proposed theory is the distinction between... -
Stylistic Manipulation of the Reader in Contemporary Fiction by Sandrine Sorlin 9781350267428
Booksplease Price: £32.63This book focuses on how readers can be 'manipulated' during their experience of reading fictional texts and how they are incited to perceive, process and interpret certain textual patterns. Offering fine-grained stylistic analysis of diverse genres,... -
Three Demonstrations and a Funeral and Other Essays Maria de Ponte 9781881526933
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £27.78A collaboration between three distinguished professors of linguistics and philosophy. The result of the collaboration between three distinguished philosophers, this book comprises the best sample of one of the most original theories in contemporary... -
Politeness Metapragmatics: Inductive Research, Multimodality and Critical Theory Lucien Brown 9783031816420
Booksplease Price: £110.79This volume demonstrates how inductive research into speakers' metapragmatic knowledge offers a path for researching what politeness means for language users and how this reshapes politeness theory. Through bottom-up analysis of interview data collected... -
The Discursive Construction of Blame: The Language of Public Inquiries by James Murphy 9781137507211
Booksplease Price: £111.38This book examines the language of public inquiries to reveal how blame is assigned, avoided, negotiated and discussed in this quasi-legal setting. In doing so, the author adds a much-needed linguistic perspective to the study of blame - previously the... -
Populism and Populist Discourse in North America by Marcia Macaulay 9783031085246
Booksplease Price: £110.37This book examines the origins of populism in Canada and the United States and its development into a powerful and at times disturbing political force. Focus is on five historical periods: The Populist Party of the United States in the 1890s, Prairie... -
The Language of Protest: Acts of Performance, Identity, and Legitimacy by Mary Lynne Gasaway Hill 9783030084516
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £109.52Rooted in the performative of Speech Act Theory, this interdisciplinary study crafts a new model to compare the work we do with words when we protest: across genres, from different geographies and languages. Rich with illustrative examples from Turkey, U... -
Creative Writing for Critical Thinking: Creating a Discoursal Identity by Helene Edberg 9783319880419
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £109.52This book explores narrative imagination and emotion as resources for learning critical meta-reflection. The author examines the learning trajectories of several students as they engage in learning to think critically through a new approach to creative... -
Discourses from Latin America and the Caribbean: Current Concepts and Challenges by Eleonora Esposito 9783030066956
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £109.52This edited collection brings together the latest research on discourse and society in Latin America and Caribbean in one volume. Employing cross-cutting approaches to current political, institutional and media discourses, it bridges existing theoretical... -
Common Ground in First Language and Intercultural Interaction by Istvan Kecskes 9783110766721
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £104.86In recent years the traditional approach to common ground as a body of information shared between participants of a communicative process has been challenged. Taking into account not only L1 but also intercultural interactions and attempting to bring... -
The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary in Philosophy by Maite Ezcurdia 9781554810697
RRP: £63.95Booksplease Price: £58.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554810697Author Maite EzcurdiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press Ltd -
Words and Meaning in Metasemantics: Grounds for an Interactive Theory by Juan Jos� Colomina-Almi�ana 9781793609489
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.07In Words and Meaning in Metasemantics, Juan Jose Colomina-Alminana puts forward a new way of understanding the linguistic and philosophical foundations of the study of language: the Interactive Theory. This theory states that the meaning of our sentences... -
Glossing Practice: Comparative Perspectives by Franck Cinato 9781793612809
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £77.16This volume is the first book to focus specifically on the topic of comparative glossing. It brings together new research on glossing practices from traditions in both the West and East Asia, with a focus on Japan. It also touches on the relation between... -
Words and Meaning in Metasemantics: Grounds for an Interactive Theory by Juan Jose Colomina-Alminana 9781793609465
RRP: £81.00Booksplease Price: £72.60In Words and Meaning in Metasemantics, Juan Jose Colomina-Alminana puts forward a new way of understanding the linguistic and philosophical foundations of the study of language: the Interactive Theory. This theory states that the meaning of our sentences... -
Waggish Coquetry in South Asian Street Communication by Ali R. Fatihi 9781498554718
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £78.87Waggish Coquetry in South Asian Street Communication critically examines the role of coquettish remarks in urban life of South Asia, in the context of the sociology and linguistics of South Asian street communication. Ali R. Fatihi explores the design... -
Mood by Paul Portner 9780199547524
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £98.94This book presents the essential background for understanding semantic theories of mood. Mood as a category is widely used in the description of languages and the formal analysis of their grammatical properties. It typically refers to the features of a... -
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning by Elin McCready 9780198821373
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £30.51This book explores the semantics and pragmatics of honorifics, expressions that indicate the degree of formality that a speaker feels is required in interacting with another person. Although these expressions are found in many languages worldwide, this... -
Truth-Conditional Pragmatics by Francois Recanati 9780199226993
RRP: £152.50Booksplease Price: £104.05Francois Recanati argues against the traditional understanding of the semantics/pragmatics divide and puts forward a radical alternative. Through half a dozen case studies, he shows that what an utterance says cannot be neatly separated from what the...